Chapter Summaries

Yan Shaozhe and Xuan Zi reached Xu Jiujiu’s residence after suffering severe injuries from the Evil Emperor and Sun Moon Army bombardments, while Su Yu and Kong Deming prepared for their possible arrival in Mingdu. As the tournament’s third elimination round began, Yan Shaozhe appeared openly with Shrek’s team and watched Su Yu.

• Yan Shaozhe told Xu Jiujiu that the Evil Emperor attacked him and Xuan Zi in the Evil Demon Forest, and Wang Xian'er began treating their serious internal and mental injuries.
• Su Yu read intelligence about two powerhouses escaping the Evil Demon Forest, and Kong Deming discussed monitoring Mingdu and the possibility of an attack on a munitions depot.
• Yan Shaozhe learned from Fan Yu about the Sun Moon Royal Team’s battle armor and ordered him to study its capabilities, while he and Qian Duoduo resolved to obtain the technology.
• The Sun Moon Royal Team and Shrek drew byes for the third elimination round, while the Tang Sect drew number three and had to compete.
• Su Yu noticed Yan Shaozhe among Shrek’s members at the tournament, and Yan Shaozhe watched Su Yu from across the arena.

Su Yu watched Tang Sect win its match and the tournament move into the Round Robin, where the Sun Moon Royal Team drew Group A. The Sun Moon Royal Team then prepared to face Earth Dragon Sect, whose members feared the gap in strength between the teams.

• Su Yu recognized Yan Shaozhe's Soul Power aura in Ming Capital and suspected Xuan Zi was there too.
• Tang Sect defeated the Dou Ling Empire academy before the individual match, and the Elimination Rounds concluded with thirty-six teams advancing.
• The teams drew their Round Robin groups, placing the Sun Moon Royal Team in Group A, Shrek and Tang Sect in Group B, the Body Sect in Group C, and the Holy Spirit Cult in Group D.
• The Sun Moon Royal Team drew Earth Dragon Sect as its first Group A opponent and drew a two-two-three match format followed by an individual match and a team match.
• Su Yu assigned Xiao Ping to attempt a seven-win streak and set the Sun Moon Royal Team's lineups for the three matches.
• Nan Qiuqiu and Earth Dragon Sect's members despaired at facing the powerful Sun Moon Royal Team and its Battle Armor-enhanced fighters.

Huo Yuhao and Zhou Xinghao defeated Nan Qiuqiu and Xiao Ye with coordinated Soul Guidance Cannon bombardment, forcing the Earth Dragon Sect to concede. As the tournament continued, Su Yu used the Power of Fate to predict match draws and develop a new Rune for deduction.

• Huo Yuhao and Zhou Xinghao overwhelmed Nan Qiuqiu and Xiao Ye with precisely guided Level 6 Soul Guidance Cannon Shells, and the referee stopped the match before they were seriously injured.
• The Earth Dragon Sect conceded after its strongest pair was defeated, leaving Su Yu and Xiao Ping unable to complete their Seven-in-a-Row mission.
• Su Yu considered using the Power of Fate to predict match draws and other possible outcomes, and concluded that fate could help deduce likely results.
• Su Yu used the Power of Fate to predict a drawing result, correctly anticipating an individual competition followed by a team battle.
• Su Yu continued practicing his deductions throughout the day, making some errors but developing the Rune for “deduce” beneath the Rune for “fate.”

Su Yu refined his understanding of the Power of Fate and entered the Soul Engineer Competition to claim its resources and prizes. After learning that a Ninth Level Soul Tool was among the rewards, Shrek Academy planned to enter He Caitou and bet Rare Metal on the contest.

• Su Yu deduced Long Aotian's soul power and realized that fate-based deductions depended on karma, improving his use of the Power of Fate.
• Su Yu returned to Illustrious Virtue Hall and decided to compete for the Soul Engineer Competition's resources, including Ye Yulin's Sun God Needle, while planning to nurture Bai Feng.
• Wang Xian'er struggled to treat Xuan Zi's deep injuries, and Xuan Zi described the Evil Emperor's devastating Light of Time and Space attack.
• Qian Duoduo told Xuan Zi that Ming Capital's Three Great Black Markets were holding a Soul Engineer Competition with a Ninth Level Soul Tool among its prizes.
• Xuan Zi ordered He Caitou to register and tasked Qian Duoduo with betting Shrek's Rare Metal on the competition.
• Huo Yuhao surveyed the temporary tournament venue with Mental Detection, and Su Yu and Huo Yuhao went to register for the competition.

Su Yu and Huo Yuhao entered the black-market Soul Engineer tournament, which the organizers had designed to profit from Rare Metal and attract talented engineers. As the first round began, Su Yu started crafting with Soul Forging Silver while Huo Yuhao formed his custom Ice Crystal Blade.

• Su Yu learned that the tournament's chief judge was Ye Yulin and that the grand prize was the Ninth-Level Sun Moon Divine Needle.
• Su Yu and Huo Yuhao decided to compete at separate venues, with Huo Yuhao choosing the Ordinary Alliance and Su Yu choosing the Odu Merchant Association.
• Su Yu planned to use the competition period to target the three black-market factions and seek Jing Hongchen and Kong Deming's support.
• Qian Duoduo asked Tang Zhen to team up with He Caitou at the Xishui Alliance venue, and Tang Zhen agreed.
• Su Yu began forging Soul Forging Silver with his Blade of Life, while Huo Yuhao formed his Ice Crystal Blade using Ultimate Ice and his own carving technique.

Su Yu used the Power of Fate to deduce a fourth-level Soul Tool design, then enlisted the Odu Merchant Association to turn his competition winnings into Rare Metals. On the second day of the Round Robin, Shi Xing fought Fei Hong of the Flying Swallow Sect, and a well-timed interference shell let him land a decisive blast.

• Su Yu used the Power of Fate to deduce a Core Array, reflected on how to use its answers without stifling his own creativity, and crafted a fourth-level Soul Tool.
• Su Yu gave Otto two million Gold Soul Coins to operate the Odu Merchant Association’s wagers in exchange for Rare Metals, while Huo Yuhao made a similar arrangement with the Ordinary Alliance.
• Jing Hongchen learned Su Yu and Huo Yuhao had visited the black market and decided not to interfere.
• Su Yu used the Power of Fate to choose the match order against the Flying Swallow Sect, and the Sun Moon Royal Team drew an individual match first.
• Shi Xing used his Battle Armor and thrusters to track Fei Hong’s rapid attacks, then disrupted Fei Hong’s movement with interference shells and struck him with a High-Explosive Shell.

Shi Xing defeated Fei Xue and Lei Shan through attrition, completing a Seven-in-a-Four with help from his Battle Armor’s passive Milk Bottle recovery. He faced the Flying Swallow Sect’s fifth contestant, Xue Yu, and was worn down until his Soul Power was completely exhausted.

• Fei Xue used airborne ice-spike attacks to drain Shi Xing, but he outlasted and defeated her.
• Shi Xing recovered with Milk Bottles between matches and defeated Lei Shan after his Battle Armor’s jets helped him avoid being knocked out of the arena.
• Shi Xing’s victory completed a Seven-in-a-Four, and Zhou Xinghao considered adapting the Battle Armor’s passive Soul Power recovery for himself.
• Xue Yu entered the arena despite Shi Xing’s exhaustion, and Su Yu expected him to keep going through another attrition battle.
• Ten minutes later, Shi Xing had been worn down further, with his Soul Power completely drained.

Shi Xing defeated all seven members of the Flying Swallow Sect in the individual competition, securing the tournament’s first Seven-in-a-Row for the Sun Moon Royal Team. After the Flying Swallow Sect forfeited the team battle, Xu Jiujiu and Vina began discussing cooperation against the Sun Moon Royal Team.

• Shi Xing used his Battle Armor, Milk Bottles, and careful tactics to defeat Bai Ou, earning his sixth consecutive victory.
• Shi Xing wore down Flying Swallow Sect captain Lin Chao for half an hour and defeated him, completing a Seven-in-a-Row.
• The Flying Swallow Sect forfeited the team battle, and Xu Tianran promised Shi Xing a reward of two hundred kilograms of Rare Metal if he won the final match.
• Su Yu saw the Snow Empress arrive to lead the Snow Demon Sect, while Xuan Zi asked Xu Jiujiu to help exhaust the Sun Moon Royal Team in future matches.
• Xu Jiujiu went to speak with Vina about coordinating against the Sun Moon Royal Team.

Vina reconsidered the Body Sect’s prospects after learning about Huo Yuhao’s Ultimate Ice and abilities, while Su Yu recruited Gao Dalou into Illustrious Virtue Hall and prepared to move against the Xishui Alliance’s Black Markets. Jing Hongchen agreed the Hall could intervene and Su Yu asked him for a branch of the Golden Ancient Tree.

• Vina’s confidence in the Body Sect weakened when Xu Jiujiu explained Huo Yuhao’s hidden talent and likely strength.
• Su Yu recruited Gao Dalou, a Fifth-Level Soul Engineer who possessed the Blood Condensing Carving Knife, into Illustrious Virtue Hall.
• Jing Hongchen recognized Gao Dalou’s father as the talented soul engineer Gao Qian and explained Illustrious Virtue Hall’s rules and rewards.
• Su Yu told Jing Hongchen he intended to eliminate the Black Markets, and Jing Hongchen agreed the Hall could help contain the Evil Soul Masters.
• Su Yu asked Jing Hongchen for a branch of the Golden Ancient Tree.

Su Yu studied the Golden Ancient Tree branch and continued preparing his Death Spirit Saint Soul Grass for its first rebirth. During the round robin, Scorpion Tiger Douluo Zhang Peng invited him to join the Holy Spirit Cult and revealed the cult’s interest in raising Soul Ring Limits, while Jing Hongchen suspected Zhang Peng was investigating Su Yu’s connection to Burial Soul Valley and his methods.

• Su Yu obtained Jing Hongchen’s Golden Ancient Tree branch, which strengthened his condense and gather Runes, and stored it for his plans involving the Death Spirit Saint Soul Grass.
• Su Yu watched Tang Zhen enter Shrek’s lineup and assigned Zhou Xinghao and Xiao Ping to face Star Luo Royal Academy and Heaven Spirit Academy in the next day’s matches.
• Zhang Peng approached Su Yu during the tournament and invited him to join the Holy Spirit Cult, claiming the cult could use Su Yu’s Ultimate Life attribute and offering access to spirit.
• Su Yu explained that he raised his Soul Ring Limits by nurturing their spirituality, while Zhang Peng returned to the Holy Spirit Cult’s rest area and continued watching him.
• The Sun Moon Royal Team defeated Star Luo Royal Academy, with Huo Yuhao’s Mental Detection Sharing helping Xiao Ping and the others fight decisively in the team battle.
• Jing Hongchen questioned Su Yu about Zhang Peng’s visit and concluded that the Holy Spirit Cult suspected him of destroying Burial Soul Valley and wanted to learn how he raised his Soul Ring Limits.

Su Yu reflected on Jing Hongchen’s plan to turn Sun Moon Empire soul engineers into combat-focused Battle Armor Masters as he watched the tournament matches. The Body Sect dominated Heaven Dragon Gate in a team battle, while Dai Huabin struggled against Lu Jun’s aerial Soul Tool barrage.

• The Heaven Spirit Battle Team surrendered after two probing bouts, denying Xiao Ping another chance to complete his mission, while Zhou Xinghao had also failed his mission.
• Su Yu recognized that Jing Hongchen wanted Xiao Ping and Zhou Xinghao to challenge their limits and shift the Sun Moon Empire’s cultivation culture toward combat strength.
• The Body Sect and Heaven Dragon Gate began their team battle, where the Body Sect’s fighters used Martial Soul Second Awakening, Bloodline Power, and Vina’s healing support to secure an advantage.
• Su Yu told the Reserve Team to study the battle and explained that fighters needed to extend their soul skills through combat techniques rather than rely on them alone.
• In the individual match between Tang Sect and Mingdu Soul Engineer Academy, Dai Huabin charged Lu Jun, who took to the air and bombarded him with Soul Guidance weapons.
• Dai Huabin defended against Lu Jun’s Soul Guidance Ray Cannon barrage with White Tiger Body Protection Barrier and White Tiger Vajra Transformation.

Lu Jun lost to Dai Huabin after Dai used his flight device and soul skills to overwhelm him, and Dai later fought Mingdu Soul Engineer Academy’s second contestant to a mutual defeat. Bei Bei then defeated several opponents before facing Ming Yun, while Su Yu and Huo Yuhao studied Bei Bei’s Dragon Emperor’s Shocking Domain Realm and its fusion of Mental Power and soul power.

• Lu Jun’s soul guidance weapons and aerial maneuvers failed to overcome Dai Huabin, who drove him out of the fight with his White Tiger skills and flight device.
• Dai Huabin ended in a mutual defeat against Mingdu Soul Engineer Academy’s second contestant, and Zhu Lu drew with the third before facing its fourth.
• Bei Bei entered as Tang Sect’s third contestant and defeated his first three opponents with his evolved Light Sacred Dragon martial soul.
• Ming Yun took the stage as Mingdu Soul Engineer Academy’s final contestant, and Bei Bei opened their match with Dragon Emperor’s Shocking Domain Realm.
• Su Yu recognized that Bei Bei’s soul skills resembled Mu En’s secret techniques, while Huo Yuhao studied their fusion of Mental Power and soul power.

Su Yu and Huo Yuhao studied Bei Bei’s fusion techniques during the tournament, while the Tang Sect won the team battle against Mingdu Soul Engineer Academy. After reflecting on how to unite essence, energy, and spirit, Su Yu entered the Soul Engineer Tournament and began making a Sixth Level Defense Gem.

• Su Yu analyzed Bei Bei’s Dragon Emperor techniques and built a Reincarnation Domain prototype, but its reincarnation effect collapsed.
• Bei Bei recovered with help from Ning Tian and a Tang Sect Reserve Team healer before leading the Tang Sect team battle.
• Bei Bei used Dragon Emperor's Purging Strike to severely injure four Mingdu Soul Engineer Academy competitors and secure the Tang Sect’s victory.
• Su Yu struggled to reconcile Mental Power, Bloodline Power, and Soul Power, then found Huo Yuhao deeply absorbed in an insight that had unified his Soul Power circulation.
• Su Yu and Huo Yuhao joined the Soul Engineer Tournament after a delay, and Su Yu began fusion-forging Rare Metals to craft a Sixth Level Defense Gem.

Su Yu won the first round of the Soul Engineer Tournament with a top-grade Sixth Level defensive Soul Tool whose hidden effect stunned the judges, drawing Qian Duoduo’s interest. After returning to Illustrious Virtue Hall with Huo Yuhao, Su Yu caught a group spying on the academy, but their powerful leader escaped, leaving him to wonder who was targeting them.

• Qian Duoduo watched Su Yu forge and recognized his extraordinary skill, while Fan Yu observed Huo Yuhao’s distinctive engraving technique in another arena.
• Su Yu finished a Sixth Level Defense Gem in an hour, and the judges awarded it full marks after discovering an undisclosed second effect.
• Qian Duoduo suspected Su Yu possessed highly classified technology and left the black market convinced he had found an exceptional young Soul Engineer.
• The Odu Merchant Association supervisor returned the Defense Gem to Su Yu and paid him in valuable Rare Metals, after which Su Yu and Huo Yuhao returned to Illustrious Virtue Hall.
• Huo Yuhao sensed people monitoring Illustrious Virtue Hall, and Su Yu and Huo Yuhao immobilized several of them, though their powerful leader escaped.
• Su Yu ordered the captured spies taken for interrogation and considered whether Xu Tianran or Evil Soul Masters had targeted Illustrious Virtue Hall.

After Illustrious Virtue Hall confirmed that spies from the Douluo Three Kingdoms were investigating its technology, Su Yu began developing a Fate-powered ability to sense hostile intent. The new Rune detected Zhongli Wu targeting him at the tournament, leaving Su Yu wary of the Holy Spirit Cult leader and his plans against the Three Great Black Markets.

• Jing Hongchen told Su Yu and Huo Yuhao that the captured spies were from the Douluo Three Kingdoms, and they agreed to stay vigilant while leaving the response to Xu Tianran’s arrangements.
• Su Yu began forming a Rune with the Power of Fate to sense people who harbored ill will toward him.
• Qian Duoduo and Fan Yu discussed contestants sixty-six and eighty-eight, suspected they were Illustrious Virtue Hall soul engineers, and considered pursuing them for battle armor technology.
• Fan Yu visited Xu Jiujiu to ask about Yan Shaozhe and Xuan Zi, then sensed Xuan Zi returning earlier than planned.
• At the Great Soul Arena, Zhongli Wu considered targeting Su Yu to obtain his battle armor secrets, and Su Yu’s new Rune sensed the threat.

Su Yu refined the Evil Rune to detect even faint malice and used the Derivation Rune to simulate cultivation with the Universal Cultivation Method. As the round robin neared its end, the Holy Spirit Cult and Snow Demon Sect began their team battle, and the contestants on both sides reacted with shock when the teams released their Martial Souls.

• Su Yu lowered the Evil Rune’s malice-detection threshold and further refined the Fate and Derivation Runes.
• Thirty thousand troops surrounded the Great Soul Arena on Xu Tianran’s orders, while the competition continued.
• Su Yu simulated the Universal Cultivation Method with the Derivation Rune and found it doubled cultivation efficiency compared with pure meditation.
• Tang Sect defeated Mingyu Sect in the team battle, while Su Yu noted that Zhou Xinghao’s mission was complete and Xiao Ping remained.
• Snow Demon Sect and Holy Spirit Sect drew a team battle, and Su Tong sensed a bloodline connection to Snow Empress.
• Snow Empress faced the Holy Spirit Sect’s bloody aura, and both teams released their Martial Souls, leaving the spectators and contestants stunned.

The Snow Empress revealed her seven Soul Rings and overwhelmed the Holy Spirit Sect team with her Ultimate Ice and Emperor Cold Heaven: Snow Dance Shining Sun. Her performance exposed her identity as the former ruler of the Far North Land and left powerful observers weighing the danger she posed.

• Su Yu saw that the Snow Empress had reached Level Seventy-Nine with five black Soul Rings and two red ones, and took her progress as reason to cultivate faster.
• The Snow Empress's Soul Ring combination shocked Xu Tianran, Zhongli Wu, Jing Hongchen, and the members of Shrek Academy, who considered how they might face her team.
• At the match's start, the Holy Spirit Sect's Yan Feng charged the Snow Demon Sect team, but the Snow Empress's blizzard wounded him and swept him into the air.
• The Snow Empress used Emperor Cold Heaven: Snow Dance Shining Sun to control the arena and attack the other six Evil Soul Masters without relying on her teammates.
• Huo Yuhao and the hidden observers Long Xiaoyao and Kong Deming recognized the Snow Empress, while Zhongli Wu, Du Busi, and Xuan Zi were noted as especially dangerous figures.

The Snow Empress defeated the Holy Spirit Sect’s team, prompting Shrek to consider how to approach her and what her transformation meant for humanity. The chapter ended with Su Yu and Huo Yuhao meeting the Snow Empress in a private room.

• The Snow Empress cut off Ji Li’s tongue and wounded Yan Feng with Emperor Sword, Ice Extreme Peerless before the Holy Spirit Sect surrendered the match.
• Su Yu studied the Snow Empress’s technique and concluded that true fusion involved the origin qi in soul power, Mental Power, and Bloodline Power.
• Yan Shaozhe and Xuan Zi discussed whether the Snow Empress had transformed into a human and considered Shrek’s possible relationship with her.
• Yan Shaozhe told Su Tong that the Snow Woman was likely the Snow Empress and proposed using her as a starting point to ease conflict between humans and soul beasts.
• Su Yu and Huo Yuhao met the Snow Empress in a private room and greeted her, “long time no see.”

Su Yu met Snow Empress and Ice Empress, learned that Snow Empress planned to follow the Ice God Bloodline’s guidance toward clues about the Ice God, and reconsidered how soul masters fused with their Martial Souls. He began developing a new Soul Spirit system based on cultivating Martial Soul spirituality and forming soul rings without requiring soul beasts to die.

• Su Yu met Snow Empress and Ice Empress in a shielded room, where Ice Empress warned Snow Empress about the danger posed by human Soul Tools.
• Snow Empress explained that Su Tong and the Ice God Bloodline had confirmed her intuition that the tournament would lead her to information about the Ice God.
• Su Yu told Snow Empress and Huo Yuhao that a Level One God could bring dependents to the God Realm, easing Snow Empress’s concern about competing with Huo Yuhao for the Ice God’s divine position.
• After the meeting, Su Yu reflected on how soul masters’ Martial Souls fused with them as their Soul Power increased, and he discussed using the tournament to promote Battle Armor and the Soul Spirit system with Jing Hongchen.
• Su Yu returned to his dormitory and began designing a new Soul Spirit system in which soul masters cultivated their Martial Soul’s spirituality to form soul rings without relying on soul beasts’ lives.

Su Yu refined his new Soul Spirit cultivation system, combining Martial Soul spirituality, qi and blood, and Soul Rings to improve the bond between Soul Masters and their Martial Souls. On the final morning of the round robin, the eight advancing teams were decided, and the knockout draw was next.

• Su Yu planned to combine Martial Soul Soul Rings with Blood Essence Soul Rings so Soul Masters could strengthen their foundations and improve cultivation efficiency.
• Su Yu used the Power of Fate to simplify Xuan Ziwen's spirituality-nurturing Runes and incorporate them into the Universal Cultivation Method alongside a Visualization Method.
• The round robin ended, and the Sun Moon Royal Team and Proud Sword Sect advanced from Group A; Shrek and Tang Sect from Group B; Body Sect and Heaven Dragon Gate from Group C; and Snow Demon Sect and Holy Spirit Sect from Group D.
• The teams prepared for the knockout-bracket draw.